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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1937.
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E are waiting for zero hour. We have been waiting now for many days, not only here, on the Teruel front, but all along the 1,400-mile-long line of the Spanish war
| OZORIO.—At the St. Teresa's Hospi-front.
fal, at 2 a... on December 7, 1987, Lucy Kulght Ozurin, the
The rebels have accumulated dearly beloved wife of Candito masses of fresh Italian material E. Lopes Ozorin. The funeralcannon and Cannon-fodder. wl pass the Monument at 5.15 With winter coming on, the big pan. to-day, (Shanghai and Macao papers please copy).
push, perhaps the biggest of the war, cannot be long delayed. But where will the hammer-blow fall.
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DISTASTEFUL COMPLAINT
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Some say: Madrid. Why not? The fall of Madrid must remain the rebels' prime objective,
Valencin,
from
1937:
The Republican Army
Others predict a rebel thrust from Teruel towards the coast, coinciding with a landing of succession of spectacular vic- ed in the flames of Guernica. Italians from Majorca, which tories for his arms?
But while the world looked on would
Barcelona sever
That is one way of looking at aghast (and did nothing) the People who occasionally like
it-the juvenile history book rest of loyal Spain was forging to experiment at Chinese re-
way. There is another.
the sword of retribution-the should have to travel 710 miles. on the rebel side of the line I Primo Scala Accordian Band,staurants with the delicacies of
At the outset of the war new Republican Army.
to an unusual cuisine have been TERUEL is fairly quiet,
Madrid Similarly, from In July, after preliminary No. 6
too. From the Gov- Franco struck where he pleased, .Len Green, embarrased of late by groups of
Granada-in Government terri- "try-out" offensives. on the rowdy young men who, though ernment positions on the aur and his blows unfailingly told.
His first concern was to reach Cordoba and Guadarrama fronts, tory, 520 miles.
tory, 290 miles; in rebel terri- rounding heights I looked down .Billy Cotton's Orch. | usually friendly, are at times this afternoon on the "martyr the Portuguese frontier, to en- the new Army struck its first
inclined to be quarrelsome and
where the sure supplies of foreign arms. major blow-Brunete. To meet These "short cuts" will tell thoughtless, to say the least, of city" of the rebels,
the march Hence whole population lives in the cel-
on "Bloody the attack the rebels had to rush strongly in the Government's ..Joc Peterson, language used. An instance has lars and the very dogs have Badajoz." His next was to con- their main forces back to the favour during a campaign which
been called to the attention of learned to run for cover when trol the Seville-Salamanca rail- Madrid front.
is likely to consist of a succes- this newspaper by an American gentleman visiting here
way and ao unite his northern the guns go off.
"We have given the first irre- sion of surprise attacks on dif complains somewhat bitterly of
"What are the chances of a and southern forces. Hence the futable demonstration of our ferent fronts.
Consider, also, man-power. treatment received at the hands rebel push towards the coast?" capture of Merida.
offensive power," said General Then came the assault on Irun, Miaja after Brunete; "but we Franco's forces number approx- of some of these young men of I asked the divisional command-
boisterous elementer as we watched his batteries which severed the contact of the have done more: we have forced imately 400,000; the Govern- the enemy to fight on a front ment's 500,000.. And Franco- They were undeniably Euro-pounding the road from Sara- loyal Basques with France. peans, the persons of which this 8088, along which Teruel draws The way was now prepared for where he did not-want-to-fight "has already called to the colours the march on Madrid. By No-.
two more classes of recruits than visitor complains, and there its supplies.
the Government has done; he was good reason to believe that "Look at our positions," he vember the rebels were there.
Up to this time the Repub-
FTEK Brunete-Bet huis, in fact, exhausted the re they were men from some bat-replied with a sweep of his arm licans had given ground wher-
chite. Again the Re- sources of conscription. And tation stationed here out for that embraced the whole pane ever the enemy struck in force. publican Army struck swiftly the supply of Moore is drying up. "a time" in mufti. No-one be-rama of towering crags and deep At Madrid, for the first time, and strongly, this time on the Adequate reserves can be grudges a soldier, sailor or
they held their ground.
Aragon front. Again the rebels found only in Italy and Ger- civilian his moments of relaxa-! "And look at our men," he add-
Throughout the winter Franco loat ground; but whereas at many. But--and this is Franco's tion, and it is certainly not the ed.
strove to break Madrid's iron Brunete they regained some of dilemma-the more foreign intention to quarrel with the This front, on which so much ring. He attacked from the the lost ground, at Belchite they troops he employs, the more quite pardonable desire for a may depend, is now held by the south-west (Carabanchel), from could recover none of it. starkly he reveals the real na- few pints with congenial com- smart, disciplined new soldiers the west (Casade Campo), froni Carabanchel. Guadalajara, ture of the war-no longer n pany. But young men must of the Republic. The Anarchist the north-west (Las Rozas), Brunete, Belchite as names civil war between "two factions" learn that conviviality is often Columna de Hierro (Iron from the south-east (Jarama) these cannot compare with (Sir Samuel Hoare's phrase) but a prelude to conspicuous conduct Column), which set out light- but all in vain.
Badajoz, Irun, Toledo, Malaga an invasion of Spanish soil by and that when one's garb and heartedly from Valencia at the Still the Republicans could do and Bilbao; but they are facts foreign armies. bearing mark one as a member beginning of the war to chase no more than defend Madrid: on which Republican Spain has of His Majesty's forces it is as the Fascists from Teruel, is now they could not hit back.
On the other hand, the re- built her confidence in ultimato well to be cautious, Certainly but a memory. Some of the
serves on which the Republic In March, for the first time, victory. there enn be
counts for iron proved to be tin; the rest is they did hit back and routed the
are entirely Spanish. The initiative is passing slow- insulting behaviour towards now being forged into steel by Italians at Guadalajara.
ly to the Government. There The International Brigade has strangers; and even less chance the new Republican Army.
Thereafter Franco turned his are other factors in its favour. played its part. Never can there be for pardon when
attention to a front of second- If I want to go from the Teruel than 15,000 strong, it has now - the insult is followed by violence.
importance-Bilbao. The to the Cordoba front I must shrunk to fewer than 10,000. Such a subject as this is
Those who remain have been in-- AS the two armies, rebel infant Basque Republic perish- travel 370 miles. But if I were obviously one of some delicacy,
and Republican, line up
corporated in the Spanish Army. The International Brigade na such, no longer exists.
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WITH the resources of The purpose on this occasion to Why. Franco is winning of grappling with all now experi- the Flonil too literally, or maybe draw on, Franco can still boast a
YOUNG child's mind, engerly | One little boy took the story of |
Italy and Germany to appeal to the more restrained course. From Badajoz to Gijon, ences and information, has not the he was precocious enough to have preponderating advantage and level-headed
element to has not the whole war been a time to mort ont properly the im-rationalist leanings. adopt an attitude towards un-
pressions that crowd in on it. દ ruly comrades which will dis-i
cism.
in
In this connection it is per-keep you, too. But the longer occupled with the exciting sense fishing.
he receives from This little boy would have nono Small wonder then that both
occurred In
this: "When are
The Sunday school teacher had armaments. The Republic has a. result, the child's attitude to asked her class how they thought created a war industry which courage discourtesy to the take him back to "clink." One sacred things is sometimes humor Noah and his family had occupied grows stronger daily, but is still general public and t the of the heartiest of the anilors ously incongruotia though, of themselves while they were waiting pitifully inadequate for the same time prevent aspersions thereupon admonished him, course, there can be no Irreverence for the waters to subside, and she need of half a million fighting received the answer that they men pitted against the military being cast upon the good name saying: "We could keep them when the intention is absent, of the services in general. here with us, Jock, and we could The child is predominantly would spend much of their time machine of international Fas haps amusing to recall we keep you the harder it will impressions
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the actual world, and con- of thin. "Pienst, teacher," he said, in the Casa de Campo and here incident which
be." The soldier took the hint
Requently he is apt to bring "there were only two warm in the nt Teruel the first question put. Shanghai during a period of un-and went like a lamb, And no sacred things down to the level of Arke rest when a British soldler, in doubt there have been instances his own experience. Thus the bay
The well-known riddle about the to me was full uniform save for the lack when the Army has been able who suggested that the reason why elephant being the last animal to they going to open the French havg, the of a cap, was making merry in to do a similar good turn for our first parents were forbidden to leave the Ark because it had to stay frontier and let us
In any event the eat the fruit of one tree in the behind to pack its trunk shows arma?" cafe with some friendly rat- the Navy.
the point. Garden of Eden was "Because they that children, to indulge their Thus, at the beginning of the Inga from one of His Majesty's illustration serves ships. At the height of the The good name of a regiment or were cooking apples was probably passion for this form of humour, second winter of the Spanish war, an at the beginning of the festivities a pair of lusty Mill-n service is the responsibility relating this theological problem to draw from Biblical matters
naturally as from any other field war itself, the issue lies in the tary Police entered and beckoned of every individual belonging to an experience of his cuá,
Another child, on hearing for the of interest.
hands of the two democracies, the capless soldier to the door. it, in or out of uniform.
first time the story of the Garden
A little girl noticed that ber A hush fell on the gathering It would be a pity, indeed, if of Eden, missed the significance of father, who was an author, always France and Britain, in whose in- and with it came a certain ten-Hongkong should be forced to the Fall altogether, and wanted to multably inscribed copies of historests as much as in their own
of thousands alon, and the caplens one was ask for protection for its guests know in what kind of carriage Adam books before presenting them to hundreds heard
to remark that the against the very men' who are and Eve were "driven" out of the his friends. On her birthday she Spaniards have Inid down their
lives. (Continued on Page 4) despised M.P.'s had come to its guardians.
Garden.
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